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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  buying the tickets: Me: I would like a Student ticket to 4:15's 21, please ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300 ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  desert in the South, to the border with Lebanon in the north. I had chosen ... . Normally I would say that sounds like a really bad idea, but it hasn’t turned out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... I hate most in life is soggy socks :( Whatever you do, don’t show up ... , but I’m from a dry place, and good lord, save yourself and either buy or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  store before you buy it. I've had laptops in my Best Buy shopping cart ... I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I ... bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first ... captures my story the best. When he was young, he would buy shoes that were

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  hassle, so it might not be worth the trouble. I would, however, highly ... student - this guide tells you a bit more about how you can do that. Now, I ... wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... making culture to its abundant opportunities, I knew it would be the right

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  peppering of apple orchards across this region. I buy all fruit from grocery stores on Massachusetts Avenue north of MIT instead of at LaVerde's in the ... 80% more blog for the same price by throwing in an IAP update. Also, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Mikhailovsky castle, which I lived five minutes away from in the fall. I would ... before I would leave for Russia. We went in the morning, so the museum was ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in ... week. It was not uncommon that year to meet someone who would say, "I don't think we've met, but your voice sure sounds familiar." I would laugh and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  walking in just before him (and obviously late.) So I circled to the North ... be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... whatnot. Nonetheless, what are the odds? Case in point number 2: I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... wouldn't have much time to study once I arrived in North Carolina ... I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  competitions in North America. No, really, it's kinda cool. But, of course, I ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my rental car. Because I was in California, my first stop was In-N-Out. I ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  Carroll, Alice In Wonderland I’ve been re-re-re-re-rewriting this post, mostly because introducing myself is way harder than I thought it would be ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best ... ),[/annotation] but all of those things were in the north. I lived close to the south

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024